Few names in world cinema can provoke the type of dread from audiences as Michael Haneke, a filmmaker attuned to the bleakest lows of human misery and how to present those depths in a cold, calculated, and unsettling manner. In hi...
‘The Snowman’ is filled with promise that it never delivers. Based on the obscenely popular novels by Joe Nesbø, directed by Tomas Alfredson (‘Let the Right One In’), and starring Michael Fassbender, the fi...
Cinematic misery lovers of the world unite! That nasty, fiercely intelligent, and undeniably talented Michael Haneke (‘Amour’, ‘Funny Games’, ‘Caché’) is back! Once again he’s delivered a ...
Cold War spy angst and goofy old-school physical action don’t exactly sound like comfortable bedfellows, but ‘John Wick’ co-director and future ‘Deadpool 2’ director David Leitch thought he’d gi...
The biggest problem with ‘Morgan’ is that it’s not ‘Ex Machina’, yet comes out so soon after Alex Garland’s brilliant robo-Frankenstein tale that it’s almost impossible not to draw compari...
First things first, ‘Anthropoid’ is a terrible title that is difficult to pronounce and will be meaningless to anyone other than a select sect of WWII history buffs. That’s a shame, because the movie that bears t...
I’m not really sure how ‘Wayward Pines’ got renewed for a second season. The show was promoted as a one-time “Limited Event” series last summer. Although it ended on something of a cliffhanger, it fra...
‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ is a nice movie. It’s a sweet movie. It’s an inspiring movie. It’s the sort of thing that you can take your parents to. While you’ll likely never talk or even think a...
Fox’s alleged “Limited Event” series ‘Wayward Pines’ drew to a close last week, and I stuck with it to the end, sometimes against my better judgment. With all the twists now revealed, was it worth the...
Having burned up almost all of the good will his career in the movies may have once had, can M. Night Shyamalan redeem himself on the television medium? The one-time auteur gives it a shot with the new ten-episode “Limited E...
The network ads described this week’s episode of ‘Agent Carter’ as the “season finale,” as if there’s still some chance of a Season 2. Originally promoted as a limited run series, the show initi...
